Pre-releases of the Yakkety Yak are *not* encouraged for anyone needinga stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running intooccasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended forUbuntu flavor developers and those who want to help in testing,reporting and fixing bugs as we work towards getting this bos grunniensready.

Beta 1 includes a number of software updates that are ready for widertesting. These images are still under development, so you should expectsome bugs.

While these Beta 1 images have been tested and work, except as noted inthe release notes, Ubuntu developers are continuing to improve theYakkety Yak. In particular, once newer daily images are available,system installation bugs identified in the Beta 1 installer should beverified against the current daily image before being reported inLaunchpad. Using an obsolete image to re-report bugs that have alreadybeen fixed wastes your time and the time of developers who are busytrying to make 16.10 the best Ubuntu release yet. Always ensure yoursystem is up to date before reporting bugs.

Lubuntu: Lubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu based on LXDE and focused on providing a very lightweight distribution.

If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop theYakkety Yak, we suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announcelist. This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a month) carryingannouncements of approved specifications, policy changes, beta releasesand other interesting events.